Theobald was the son of Sir Edmund Butler by the Honourable Eleanor Eustace, daughter of Rowland Eustace, 2nd Viscount Baltinglass.
He was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim, in the County of Carlow.
The dowager Viscountess Butler of Tulleophelim married as her second husband Richard Preston, 1st Earl of Desmond.
Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim died in January 1613.
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